Official
White House Response to Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of
a Death Star by 2016.

This
Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For

By Paul
Shawcross

The
Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national
defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

·The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than
$850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand
it.

·The Administration does not support blowing up
planets.

·Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a
Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

However,
look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already
floating in the sky -- that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Yes, we already
have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the
Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long
durations. The Space Station has six astronauts -- American, Russian, and
Canadian -- living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live
and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting
spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We've also got two robot
science labs -- one wielding a laser -- roving around Mars,
looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.

We are
living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a
career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The
President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he
knows these domains are critical to our country's future, and to ensuring the
United States continues leading the world in doing big things.

If you do
pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field,
the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a
planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the
Force.

Paul
Shawcross is Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of
Management and Budget

if they useds all the steal from the steal from the abandoned buildings in Detroit that would be a good start, not to mention metal from 700 000 abandoned homes in Detroit. The packard plant alone is the size of 5 football fields lol.